Letters of Travel Letter 2 - Across a Continent

In which a weary traveller departs the chaotic and imperfectly managed streets of New York to journey across the vast and varied American and Canadian landscape, from the nascent grandeur of St. Paul’s suburbs to the stark, snowbound grandeur of the Rockies and the burgeoning port of Vancouver. Along the way, observations of nature’s unyielding spirit, the stark realities of frontier life, and the peculiar character of the people and their politics paint a vivid portrait of a continent both young and vast, caught between promise and disorder.